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Associate Justice, First Appellate District
BAR ADMISSION: Admitted to California Bar in December 1975
EDUCATION: J.D., 1975, Hastings College of the Law, note and comment editor, Hastings Law Journal; B.A., 1970, magna cum laude, Holy Names College; Doctoral program, clinical psychology, 1970-1972, St. Louis University.
PROFESSIONAL LEGAL BACKGROUND: Senior Deputy District Attorney, Alameda County, 1985-1987; Deputy District Attorney, Alameda County, 1975-1985.
JUDICIAL BACKGROUND: Superior Court Judge, Alameda County, 1991-1994; Municipal Court Judge, Oakland, Emeryville, Piedmont, 1987-1991; assignments have included civil and criminal trials, master calendar and family law departments.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/ASSOCIATIONS/AFFILIATIONS: Current: Member California Judicial Council; Chair, Judicial Council Task Force on Jury Instructions; Previous: Member, President’s Commission on Organized Crime; Consultant/Author, President’s Task Force on Victims of Crime; Member, Commission on the Future of California Courts; Member, Governing Board, Center for Judicial Education and Research.
EDUCATIONAL/PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS: National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Distinguished Faculty Award; Soroptimist International (Oakland) Woman of Achievement Award.
PROFESSIONAL TEACHING/EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES: Adjunct professor of law: University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law, 1984-1987, 1989-1994; University of California, Hastings School of Law, 1981-1987, 1989-1991; University of San Francisco School of Law, 1987-1988; University of Puget Sound, School of Law, 1981; Faculty: California Judicial College, 1988-present; Continuing Judicial Studies Programs 1988-present; National Institute of Trial Advocacy Programs, 1982-present; Rutter Group Programs, 1995-present; Selected Publications: “Diversity, Civility, and the Future of Justice in California,” 7 Docket 8 (Sacramento County Bar Association, 1994); “Rights of the Defendant from Arrest to Arraignment,” Attorney’s Briefcase, 1990; “On Prosecutorial Ethics,” 13 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 537 (1986); “California’s Cruelty Criteria, Evaluating Sentences after In Re Lynch,” 25 Hastings Law Journal 636 (1974).
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES: Chair, Board of Directors, St. Vincent’s Day Home (Oakland) 1991-present, member 1983-present; Chair, Board of Directors, Holy Names College (Oakland) 1991-present, member 1987-present; Member, Board of Directors, Goodwill Industries of the Greater East Bay 1984-1990; Member, Board of Advisors, Providence Hospital, 1988-1991.